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by rajandatta 1160 days ago
This petition is an excellent idea. We as humanity need to get closer to the edge if not ahead of AI Development to strive to ensure that a) the wealth and benefits can be generated for societies b) closed and unaccountable parties are not the sole custodians of such a powerful force.

The idea of CERN has a lot of merit because of CERN's success as a multi-national institution. The model will need to be evolved for AI but that's why we need to start now.

This is the start of a new phenomenon for our societies; not the end. It's better for its impact to be managed by society as a whole.

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On the contrary, it's totally unnecessary and the same level of effort will come about naturally from market and industry/academic incentives. Cern was needed because nobody would spend the money on high energy physics otherwise.